Documents | p. xvii |
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures | p. xvii |
Maps | p. xviii |
Preface | p. xx |
Introduction: The Idea of Western Civilization | p. 1 |
The First Civilizations | p. 3 |
The Visual Record: Otzi's Last Meal: Tradition and Innovation in Prehistoric Europe | p. 4 |
Before Civilization | p. 6 |
The Dominance of Culture | p. 7 |
Social Organization, Agriculture, and Religion | p. 8 |
Mesopotamia: Between the Two Rivers | p. 9 |
Map Discovery: The Ancient World | p. 10 |
The Ramparts of Uruk | p. 10 |
Tools: Technology and Writing | p. 12 |
Gods and Mortals in Mesopotamia | p. 13 |
Sargon and Mesopotamian Expansion | p. 14 |
Hammurabi and the Old Babylonian Empire | p. 15 |
The Gift of the Nile | p. 17 |
Tending the Cattle of God | p. 17 |
Democratization of the Afterlife | p. 19 |
The Egyptian Empire | p. 21 |
Map Discovery: The Egyptian Empire | p. 22 |
Religious and Royal Consolidation Under Akhenaten | p. 22 |
Between Two Worlds | p. 23 |
The Hebrew Alternative | p. 23 |
A King Like All the Nations | p. 27 |
Exile | p. 27 |
Nineveh and Babylon | p. 29 |
The Assyrian Empire | p. 30 |
The New Babylonian Empire | p. 31 |
Persian Expansion | p. 31 |
A Closer Look: Discovering the Pharaohs | p. 24 |
Documents | |
The Code of Hammurabi | p. 16 |
A Homesick Egyptian | p. 20 |
The Kingdom of Israel | p. 28 |
Early Greece, 2500-500 B.C.E. | p. 35 |
The Visual Record: Hecuba and Achilles: The Birth of Greek Civilization | p. 36 |
Greece in the Bronze Age to 800 B.C.E. | p. 38 |
Islands of Peace | p. 38 |
Map Discovery: Greece in the Bronze Age | p. 39 |
Mainland of War | p. 41 |
The Dark Age | p. 41 |
Archaic Greece, 800-500 B.C.E. | p. 45 |
Ethnos and Polis | p. 45 |
Map Discovery: Greek Cities and Colonies of the Archaic Age | p. 46 |
Technology of Writing and Warfare | p. 46 |
Colonists and Tyrants | p. 47 |
Gender and Power | p. 48 |
Gods and Mortals | p. 49 |
Myth and Reason | p. 52 |
Investigation and Speculation | p. 53 |
Art and the Individual | p. 53 |
A Tale of Three Cities | p. 55 |
Wealthy Corinth | p. 55 |
Martial Sparta | p. 56 |
Democratic Athens | p. 59 |
The Coming of Persia and the End of the Archaic Age | p. 61 |
Map Discovery: The Persian Empire, ca. 500 B.C.E. | p. 61 |
A Closer Look: The Agony of Athletics | p. 50 |
Documents | |
The Race of Iron | p. 43 |
Hector and Andromache | p. 44 |
Two Faces of Tyranny | p. 57 |
Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500-100 B.C.E. | p. 65 |
The Visual Record: Alexander at Issus: The Spread of Greek Civilization | p. 66 |
War and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.E. | p. 68 |
The Persian Wars | p. 68 |
Thermopylae and Salamis | p. 69 |
The Athenian Empire | p. 71 |
Private and Public Life in Athens | p. 71 |
Pericles and Athens | p. 74 |
The Peloponnesian War | p. 75 |
Map Discovery: The Delian League and the Peloponnesian War | p. 76 |
Athenian Culture in the Hellenic Age | p. 77 |
The Examined Life | p. 77 |
Understanding the Past | p. 78 |
Athenian Drama | p. 79 |
Art and the Human Image | p. 81 |
From City-States to Macedonian Empire, 404-323 B.C.E. | p. 82 |
Politics After the Peloponnesian War | p. 82 |
Philosophy and the Polis | p. 84 |
The Rise of Macedon | p. 85 |
Map Discovery: The Empire of Alexander the Great | p. 87 |
The Empire of Alexander the Great | p. 87 |
The Hellenistic World | p. 89 |
Map Discovery: The Hellenistic Kingdoms | p. 89 |
Urban Life and Culture | p. 92 |
Women in Public Life | p. 92 |
Alexandria | p. 93 |
Hellenistic Literature | p. 93 |
Architecture and Art | p. 94 |
Hellenistic Philosophy | p. 95 |
Mathematics and Science | p. 98 |
Cultural Resistance | p. 98 |
A Closer Look: Technology and Innovation | p. 96 |
The West and the Wider World Representing the Buddha: From Apollo to Christian Saint | p. 90 |
Documents | |
The Two Faces of Athenian Democracy | p. 72 |
Socrates the Gadfly | p. 78 |
Greeks and Barbarians | p. 83 |
Alexander Calls a Halt | p. 86 |
Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800-146 B.C.E. | p. 101 |
The Visual Record: Eternal Rome: From Village to Empire | p. 102 |
The Western Mediterranean to 509 B.C.E. | p. 104 |
Merchants of Baal | p. 104 |
The Western Greeks | p. 105 |
Map Discovery: Greek and Phoenician Colonies and Trade | p. 106 |
Italy's First Civilization | p. 107 |
From City to Empire, 509-146 B.C.E. | p. 109 |
Latin Rome | p. 109 |
Etruscan Rome | p. 110 |
Rome and Italy | p. 111 |
Rome and the Mediterranean | p. 114 |
Map Discovery: The Punic Wars | p. 119 |
Republican Civilization | p. 120 |
Farmers and Soliders | p. 120 |
The Roman Family | p. 121 |
Social Effects of Expansion | p. 121 |
Roman Religion | p. 122 |
Republican Letters | p. 124 |
The Crisis of Roman Virtue | p. 125 |
A Closer Look: Hannibal's Elephants | p. 116 |
Documents | |
The Twelve Tables | p. 113 |
Polybius Compares Rome and Carthage | p. 118 |
Cato's Slaves | p. 126 |
Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.E.-192 C.E. | p. 129 |
The Visual Record: The Altar of Augustan Peace: The Making of the Roman Empire | p. 130 |
The Price of Empire, 146-121 B.C.E. | p. 132 |
Winners and Losers | p. 132 |
Optimates and Populares | p. 133 |
The End of the Republic | p. 135 |
The Crisis of Government | p. 135 |
Map Discovery: The Career of Julius Caesar | p. 138 |
A Life Worth Leading | p. 139 |
The Augustan Age and the Pax Romana | p. 141 |
The Empire Renewed | p. 141 |
Augustus's Successors | p. 146 |
Map Discovery: The Roman Empire, 14 and 117 C.E. | p. 147 |
Religions from the East | p. 149 |
Jewish Resistance | p. 149 |
The Origins of Christianity | p. 150 |
Geographical Tour: A Tour of the Empire | p. 153 |
The Western Provinces | p. 154 |
The Eastern Provinces | p. 155 |
The Culture of Antonine Rome | p. 157 |
A Closer Look: A Day in the Pax Romana | p. 144 |
Documents | |
The Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus | p. 134 |
Cicero on Justice and Reason | p. 137 |
Peter Announces the Good News | p. 152 |
The Transformation of the Classical World | p. 161 |
The Visual Record: A Bride's Trousseau: The Synthesis of Christianity and the Classical Tradition | p. 162 |
The Crisis of the Third Century | p. 164 |
Enrich the Army and Scorn the Rest | p. 164 |
An Empire on the Defensive | p. 165 |
The Barbarian Menace | p. 166 |
Roman Influence in the Barbarian World | p. 167 |
The Empire Restored | p. 169 |
Diocletian, the God-Emperor | p. 169 |
Map Discovery: The Empire Under Diocletian | p. 170 |
Constantine, the Emperor of God | p. 171 |
The Triumph of Christianity | p. 172 |
Imperial Christianity | p. 173 |
Map Discovery: The Spread of Christianity | p. 174 |
Divinity, Humanity, and Salvation | p. 174 |
The Call of the Desert | p. 176 |
Monastic Communities | p. 177 |
Solitaries and Hermits | p. 178 |
A Parting of the Ways | p. 179 |
The Barbarization of the West | p. 179 |
The New Barbarian Kingdoms | p. 182 |
Map Discovery: Barbarian Migrations and Invasions | p. 183 |
The Hellenization of the East | p. 184 |
A Closer Look: The Stainless Star of Wisdom's Discipline | p. 180 |
Documents | |
Tacitus on the Germans | p. 167 |
Religious Toleration and Persecution | p. 173 |
Love in the Two Cities | p. 177 |
The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam | p. 187 |
The Visual Record: From Temple to Mosque: The Continuity of Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean | p. 188 |
The Byzantines | p. 190 |
Justinian and the Creation of the Byzantine State | p. 190 |
Emperors and Individuals | p. 192 |
Map Discovery: Byzantine Empire Under Justinian | p. 193 |
Families and Villages | p. 194 |
A Foretaste of Heaven | p. 195 |
Iconoclasm | p. 198 |
The Rise of Islam | p. 199 |
Arabia Before the Prophet | p. 200 |
Muhammad, Prophet of God | p. 201 |
The Triumph of Islam | p. 202 |
The Spread of Islam | p. 204 |
Map Discovery: The Spread of Islam | p. 205 |
Authority and Government in Islam | p. 206 |
Umayyad and 'Abbasid Caliphates | p. 207 |
Islamic Civilization | p. 208 |
The Byzantine Apogee and Decline, 1000-1453 | p. 210 |
The Disintegration of the Empire | p. 212 |
The Conquests of Constantinople and Baghdad | p. 213 |
The West and the Wider World Industrial Espionage in the Sixth Century | p. 196 |
Documents | |
The Qur'an | p. 202 |
An Arab's View of Western Medicine | p. 211 |
A Turkish Guest in Constantinople | p. 214 |
The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900 | p. 219 |
The Visual Record: The Chapel at the Waters: The Western Empire Reborn | p. 220 |
The Making of the Barbarian Kingdoms, 500-750 | p. 222 |
Italy: From Ostrogoths to Lombards | p. 222 |
Map Discovery: The Barbarian Kingdoms, ca. 526 | p. 223 |
Visigothic Spain: Intolerance and Destruction | p. 224 |
The Anglo-Saxons: From Pagan Conquerors to Christian Missionaries | p. 225 |
The Franks: An Enduring Legacy | p. 229 |
Living in the New Europe | p. 230 |
Creating the European Peasantry | p. 231 |
Rural Households | p. 231 |
Creating the European Aristocracy | p. 232 |
Aristocratic Lifestyle | p. 233 |
Governing Europe | p. 234 |
The Carolingian Achievement | p. 235 |
Charlemagne and the Renewal of the West | p. 236 |
The Carolingian Renaissance | p. 236 |
Map Discovery: Charlemagne's Empire, 814 | p. 237 |
Carolingian Government | p. 238 |
Carolingian Art | p. 240 |
Geographical Tour: Europe in the Ninth Century | p. 241 |
England | p. 241 |
Scandinavia | p. 242 |
The Slavic World | p. 245 |
Muslim Spain | p. 245 |
After the Carolingians: From Empire to Lordships | p. 247 |
Map Discovery: The Division of Charlemagne's Empire | p. 247 |
Disintegration of the Empire | p. 247 |
Emergence of France and Germany | p. 248 |
Cluny | p. 248 |
A Closer Look: The Jews in the Early Middle Ages | p. 226 |
Documents | |
Two Missionaries | p. 228 |
From Slave to Queen | p. 230 |
Charlemagne and the Arts | p. 238 |
The High Middle Ages | p. 253 |
The Visual Record: From the Syrian Desert to the Welsh Marshes: A Kings and His Castles | p. 254 |
The Countryside | p. 256 |
The Peasantry: Serfs and Freemen | p. 256 |
The Aristocracy: Warriors and Heiresses | p. 258 |
The Church: Saints and Monks | p. 260 |
Crusaders: Soldiers of God | p. 266 |
Map Discovery: The Crusades | p. 268 |
Medieval Towns | p. 270 |
Italian Cities | p. 270 |
Map Discovery: Medieval Trade Networks | p. 272 |
Northern Towns | p. 273 |
The Fairs of Champagne | p. 275 |
Urban Intellectuals | p. 275 |
The Invention of the State | p. 279 |
The Universal States: Empire and Papacy | p. 280 |
The Nation-States: France and England | p. 283 |
Map Discovery: The Consolidation of France Under the Capetians | p. 284 |
A Closer Look: Cathedrals of Light | p. 262 |
Documents | |
Visions Like a Flame | p. 265 |
Pope Urban II Summons a Crusade | p. 267 |
Saint Francis of Assisi on Humility and Poverty | p. 278 |
The Great Charter | p. 287 |
The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1500 | p. 291 |
The Visual Record: Webs of Stone and Blood: European Civilization at the End of the Middle Ages | p. 292 |
Politics as a Family Affair | p. 294 |
The Struggle for Central Europe | p. 294 |
Map Discovery: Central and Eastern Europe, ca. 1378 | p. 295 |
A Hundred Years of War | p. 297 |
Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages | p. 301 |
Dancing with Death | p. 301 |
The Plague of Insurrection | p. 304 |
Map Discovery: Spread of the Black Death and Peasant Revolts | p. 304 |
Living and Dying in Medieval Towns | p. 306 |
The Spirit of the Later Middle Ages | p. 308 |
The Crisis of the Papacy | p. 308 |
Map Discovery: The Great Schism | p. 309 |
Discerning the Spirit of God | p. 310 |
Heresy and Revolt | p. 312 |
Religious Persecution in Spain | p. 313 |
William of Ockham and the Spirit of Truth | p. 314 |
Vernacular Literature and the Individual | p. 315 |
Documents | |
The Black Death in Florence | p. 303 |
A Woman Before the Inquisition | p. 311 |
Convivencia | p. 313 |
The Italian Renaissance | p. 321 |
The Visual Record: A Civic Procession: Community Building in Renaissance Venice | p. 322 |
Renaissance Society | p. 324 |
The Urban Environment | p. 324 |
Map Discovery: Largest Cities in Western Europe, ca. 1500 | p. 325 |
Production and Consumption | p. 326 |
The Experience of Life | p. 327 |
The Quality of Life | p. 329 |
Renaissance Art | p. 330 |
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter | p. 331 |
Renaissance Style | p. 333 |
Michelangelo | p. 334 |
Renaissance Ideals | p. 336 |
Humanists and the Liberal Arts | p. 337 |
Renaissance Science | p. 339 |
Machiavelli and Politics | p. 339 |
Map Discovery: Italy, 1494 | p. 341 |
The Politics of the Italian City-States | p. 341 |
The Five Powers | p. 342 |
Venice: A Seaborne Empire | p. 342 |
Florence: Spinning Cloth into Gold | p. 343 |
The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450-1527 | p. 345 |
A Closer Look: The Fall of Constantinople | p. 348 |
Documents | |
On the Family | p. 328 |
The Renaissance Man | p. 337 |
The Lion and the Fox | p. 340 |
The Siege of Constantinople | p. 347 |
The European Empires | p. 353 |
The Visual Record: Astride the World: The Age of Monarchies | p. 354 |
European Encounters | p. 356 |
Africa and a Passage to India | p. 356 |
Map Discovery: Portuguese Explorations | p. 357 |
Mundus Novus | p. 358 |
The Spanish Conquests | p. 359 |
Map Discovery: Claims of Spain and Portugal to Overseas Empires | p. 364 |
The Legacy of the Encounters | p. 364 |
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500: The Age of the New Monarchies | p. 367 |
Boundaries of Eastern Europe | p. 367 |
Central Europe | p. 368 |
Western Europe | p. 369 |
The Formation of States | p. 370 |
Eastern Configurations | p. 371 |
The Western Powers | p. 373 |
Map Discovery: The Unification of France | p. 377 |
The Dynastic Struggles | p. 379 |
Power and Glory | p. 380 |
The Italian Wars | p. 380 |
A Closer Look: Isabella of Castile | p. 360 |
Documents | |
A Momentous Discovery | p. 359 |
The Halls of Montezuma | p. 363 |
Last Words | p. 374 |
The Kingdom of France | p. 376 |
The Reform of Religion | p. 387 |
The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation | p. 388 |
The Intellectual Reformation | p. 390 |
The Print Revolution | p. 390 |
Map Discovery: The Spread of Printing | p. 391 |
Christian Humanism | p. 392 |
The Humanist Movement | p. 392 |
The Wit of Erasmus | p. 392 |
The Lutheran Reformation | p. 396 |
The Spark of Reform | p. 396 |
Martin Luther's Faith | p. 398 |
Lutheranism | p. 399 |
The Spread of Lutheranism | p. 401 |
Map Discovery: The Spread of Lutheranism | p. 402 |
The Protestant Reformation | p. 403 |
Geneva and Calvin | p. 403 |
The English Reformation | p. 405 |
The Reformation of the Radicals | p. 408 |
The Catholic Reformation | p. 409 |
The Spiritual Revival | p. 410 |
Loyola's Pilgrimage | p. 412 |
The Counter-Reformation | p. 413 |
Map Discovery: The Religious Divisions of Europe, ca. 1555 | p. 415 |
The Empire Strikes Back | p. 416 |
A Closer Look: Utopia | p. 394 |
Documents | |
A Dutch Wit | p. 393 |
Luther on Marriage | p. 400 |
The Eternal Decree | p. 405 |
Heavenly Vision | p. 411 |
Europe at War, 1555-1648 | p. 419 |
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society | p. 420 |
The Crises of the Western States | p. 422 |
The French Wars of Religion | p. 422 |
Map Discovery: Religious Divisions in France During the Wars of Religion | p. 423 |
One King, Two Faiths | p. 426 |
The World of Philip II | p. 429 |
Map Discovery: Habsburg Lands at the Abdication of Charles V | p. 431 |
The Burgundian Inheritance | p. 431 |
The Revolt of the Netherlands | p. 432 |
The Struggles in Eastern Europe | p. 435 |
Kings and Diets in Poland | p. 435 |
Muscovy's Time of Troubles | p. 437 |
The Rise of Sweden | p. 437 |
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 | p. 439 |
Bohemia Revolts | p. 440 |
The War Widens | p. 442 |
Map Discovery: Population Loss in Germany During the Thirty Years' War | p. 444 |
The Long Quest for Peace | p. 444 |
A Closer Look: The Monstrous Regiment of Women | p. 424 |
Documents | |
Catholics and Huguenots | p. 428 |
Cannibals | p. 433 |
War Is Hell | p. 441 |
Fire and Sword | p. 443 |
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650 | p. 449 |
The Visual Record: Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community | p. 450 |
Economic Life | p. 452 |
Rural Life | p. 452 |
Town Life | p. 455 |
Map Discovery: Grain Supply and Trade in Sixteenth-Century Europe | p. 457 |
Economic Change | p. 457 |
Map Discovery: Population Density in Europe, ca. 1600 | p. 458 |
Social Life | p. 460 |
Social Constructs | p. 460 |
Social Structure | p. 462 |
Social Change | p. 464 |
Peasant Revolts | p. 466 |
Private and Community Life | p. 468 |
The Family | p. 468 |
Communities | p. 472 |
Popular Beliefs and the Persecution of Witches | p. 474 |
A Closer Look: Sex and the Married Man | p. 476 |
Documents | |
Living by One's Wits | p. 454 |
The Peasants' Revolt | p. 467 |
A Feminine Perspective | p. 470 |
The Devil's Due | p. 475 |
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century | p. 483 |
The Visual Record: Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy | p. 484 |
The Rise of the Royal State | p. 486 |
Divine Kings | p. 486 |
The Court and the Courtiers | p. 488 |
The Drive to Centralize Government | p. 490 |
The Taxing Demands of War | p. 491 |
The Crises of the Royal State | p. 492 |
The Need to Resist | p. 493 |
The Right to Resist | p. 494 |
The English Civil War | p. 496 |
Map Discovery: English Civil War | p. 498 |
The English Revolutions | p. 499 |
The Zenith of the Royal State | p. 502 |
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy | p. 502 |
Absolutism in the East | p. 504 |
The Origins of French Absolutism | p. 506 |
Map Discovery: Expansion of Russia Under Peter the Great | p. 506 |
Louis le Grand | p. 507 |
Documents | |
A Glimpse of a King | p. 487 |
A Short, Sharp Shock | p. 497 |
The Nature of Man | p. 503 |
A Close Shave | p. 505 |
Glossary | p. G-1 |
Credits | p. C-1 |
Index | p. I-1 |
Primary Source Documents | p. D-1 |
How to Analyze Primary Source Documents | p. D-3 |
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